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Merriam Family Tree
Genealogy Pages
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 1876 - 1961 (84 years)
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| Name |
MERRIAM, Susan Agnes [1] |
| Born |
4 Sep 1876 |
Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States  [2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Occupation |
Poet (had published works) |
- As a published poet, Susan Merriam Gearhart's papers are kept at the university of Iowa Special Collections. The following is a brief biographical note taken from that university. http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0774.
Susan Merriam was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, on September 9, 1876. She graduated from Lenox College in Hopkinton in 1897. She married Dr. Gearhart in 1901. She was a poet with two books to her name: The Plow on the Hills, published in 1936 and The West is Here, published in 1944. She lived in Springville, Iowa, for sixty years. Mrs. Gearhart died in 1961.
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| Died |
4 Mar 1961 [3] |
| Buried |
Springville Cemetery, Springville, Linn Co, Iowa, United States [3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I8841 |
SEQUOIA |
| Last Modified |
16 Nov 2021 |
| Father |
MERRIAM, Charles Edward, b. 22 Jan 1845, Princeton, Worcester Co, Massachusetts, United States , d. 19 Dec 1902, , Cook Co, Illinois, United States (Age 57 years) |
| Mother |
KIRKWOOD, Margaret Campbell, b. 3 Apr 1840, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 9 Nov 1910, Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States (Age 70 years) |
| Married |
15 Apr 1868 |
Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States [5] |
| Family ID |
F2090 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
GEARHART, Dr George W, b. Nov 1872, , , Iowa, United States , d. 1969 (Age ~ 96 years) |
| Married |
19 Jun 1901 |
Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States [3, 6] |
| Children |
| + | 1. GEARHART, Margaret Merriam, b. 24 Jun 1902, Springville, Linn Co, Iowa, United States , d. 28 Sep 2003, Cedar Rapids, Linn Co, Iowa, United States (Age 101 years) |
| + | 2. GEARHART, Esther Edith, b. 3 Nov 1904, , Delaware Co, Iowa, United States , d. 6 Dec 2001, , , Virginia, United States (Age 97 years) |
| | 3. GEARHART, Laura Georgina, b. Abt 1910, , , Iowa, United States , d. Yes, date unknown |
| + | 4. GEARHART, Dr Merriam, b. 17 May 1913, Springville, Linn Co, Iowa, United States , d. 17 Jul 1991, Bethany, Harrison Co, Missouri, United States (Age 78 years) |
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| Last Modified |
17 Sep 2015 |
| Family ID |
F14593 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 4 Sep 1876 - Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States |
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| Married - 19 Jun 1901 - Hopkinton, Delaware Co, Iowa, United States |
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 | Buried - - Springville Cemetery, Springville, Linn Co, Iowa, United States |
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| Sources |
- [S255] GENEALOGY: MERRIAM GENEALOGY IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, Pope, Charles Henry - 1906, (Reprint compiled by John Merriam Kingsbury through Bullbrier Press - 1986), page 295 (588). (Reliability: 3).
- [S476] 1900 CENSUS: USA, (FamilySearch.org).
- [S793] Personal Knowledge of: BUCHHOLDT, Titania (Reliability: 2).
- [S142] WEBSITE: Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68543918 (Reliability: 2).
- [S428] MARRIAGE Record: Iowa, USA, (www.familysearch.org).
- [S428] MARRIAGE Record: Iowa, USA, (www.familysearch.org), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJKB-M5Z (Reliability: 2).
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